Who is the writer of hyperbole and a half

We dare you not to. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness! The adventures she recounts are mostly inside her head, where we hear and see the kind of inner thoughts most of us are too timid to let out in public.

It is no hyperbole to say I love her approach—looking, listening, and describing with the observational skills of a scientist, the creativity of an artist, and the wit of a comedian. Brosh, who runs a popular web comic and blog. I had to find out what the fuss was about. Brosh's bracing honesty is a gift. In my memory they are all great, so yay shitty memory! I also blame myself for reading most of this book in one sitting.

I kept thinking, maybe I should leave Karen's apartment, and not just sit on her bed and pet her cat for a while longer, but I'll just read one more story, and that one story led to one more, and one more and then I was all done with the book thanks to the humorous crack like quality of the book.

I'm sure Maggie was happy with the extra pets she got because of this. Allie Brosh is fucking funny. If you're like me and fairly stupid about popular things on the internet i. I really don't know how much of this is original material, so maybe if you've been reading the blog it wouldn't be as new and exciting for you as it was for me, but it's now available in the handy hand-held version that you can touch and turn the pages of.

Anyway really funny and cute. She draws dogs just about as good as Jeffrey Brown draws cats, which is a total compliment. A couple of the things in the depression pieces hit a little too close to home, and may have soured my mood for the rest of the day, but they were still a pleasurable way to have my mood soured for the day, sort of in the same way I'll keeping listening to Clarissa's Wierd over and over again even though I know that it's not going to end well for me.

Some reviewers I have seen say that this book mostly contains things from the blog, which is great for those of us who seem to be blind to the internet outside of goodreads. Maybe in I'll set myself some low reading goal for the year so I can focus more on catching up with this whole blogging craze.

This will be a good time to do this, because I'm sure there will be something all new and exciting going on by then or now that I can be equally clueless about, but marvel at when it's released in book format. I don't think I've read any other humor books released this year, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say this is the best one. If not the actual best one, then the best one I've read.

I didn't pay to read it, and after a certain period of time it will no longer be in my possession, and I will have to get my own copy, or just leaf through it in a bookstore, or maybe a library, if I want to re-read it, or refer back to the book when three or four years from now someone decides to tell me that I'm not very clever or smart and that I was in fact wrong about finding this book funny, and then I'll feel the need to go back to the book to defend why I thought it was funny, which will be impossible because if someone doesn't find something funny it never adds improves the situation by describing to the person why something is funny.

I've been amiss lately at adding necessary legal disclaimers to my reviews. It's almost safe to say but not entirely true , that just about everything I've reviewed in the past few months was not purchased by me, and in most times not purchased by anyone. I'm certain this book has been purchased though. In the past six months I'm fairly certain that I have purchased 7 books, two of which I have read and one which I reviewed favorably.

View all 20 comments. Aug 03, Natalie Monroe rated it it was amazing Shelves: laugh-out-loud-humor , not-worth-the-hype , real-problems , fabulous-five-stars.

I finally know where this meme originated from. From Allie Brosh and her fabulous, fabulous book. Hyperbole and a Half is the perfect novel to read on a rainy day because it's unbelievably funny.

My tiny body had morphed into a writhing mass of pure tenacity encased in a layer of desperation. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate fro I finally know where this meme originated from. I would eat all of the cake or I would evaporate from the sheer power of my desire to eat it. That's the solution. The solution is not to begin eating pepper to cancel out the salt. And the drawings are hysterical.

View all 7 comments. Oct 01, Jenny Reading Envy rated it it was amazing Shelves: graphic-novels-or-comics , read A book club friend loaned this to me. I am very familiar with Hyperbole and a Half, have even been known to use an image or two from it as profile pictures especially the cell from the social entrapment post that says "I'd love to hang out but I have to go sit in my house by myself.

I'd been a bit bogged down in depressing yet award-nominated books and also had spent four days in training this week, so this was a welcome res A book club friend loaned this to me. I'd been a bit bogged down in depressing yet award-nominated books and also had spent four days in training this week, so this was a welcome respite.

I laughed like a crazy person. Somehow I had never met Helper Dog and loved his crazy presence. Jan 11, abby rated it it was amazing Shelves: biography-memoir , graphic-novel , favorites , nonfiction.

I am an ugly laugher. This is something I didn't know about myself until I read this book. This is the type of book that's not merely amusing or funny in the way of smart satire. No, Brosh's brand of humorous life observation, coupled with her rough but charming illustrations, will have you clutching your side, desperate for air.

My husband banned me from reading this book at night because my hysterics woke him up, and I got a lecture about REM cycles and proper adult bedtimes incidentally, my I am an ugly laugher. My husband banned me from reading this book at night because my hysterics woke him up, and I got a lecture about REM cycles and proper adult bedtimes incidentally, my husband is a fully-functioning grown up and not the target audience for this book.

Despite the author's questionable life choice to be a dog person, I felt like I could relate to everything in this book. And I also found it empowering in a way. Like, hey, I'm not alone. To my mother and sister-in-law who seem to be working in tandem to make me feel as awkward and inferior as possible: Hey, I'm not alone! Being a superstar adult is not for everyone, and whether or not it was the author's intentions, I feel a little better about it after reading this book.

LOL What a fun review : " Thanks! Good to see you back on Goodreads : Sandra wrote: "I am an ugly laugher. Good to see you back on Goodreads Deborah Loved your laughter and describing the author's questionable choice to be a dog person. Loved your laughter and describing the author's questionable choice to be a dog person.

May 18, 14 Will I ever find something like this book, again?! Do you see that smile? That little face. It's like a child on sugar overdose after eating half a cake on his birthday during vacations at Disneyland. So, I'll try to control myself. I was smiling since its introduction. I didn't know this was such an Internet sensatio May 18, 14 Will I ever find something like this book, again?!

I didn't know this was such an Internet sensation, that she had a blog and all that. I don't so I'm a bit out of that world, you know, blogs, Twitter, Tumblr, the thing with the paintings, pictures, whatever. I heard about this author a couple of months ago. Thanks GR Awards for letting me know about this book. I know I couldn't vote because I haven't read a single one of those new books, but I'm trying to keep up. Even though next year I'm guessing it will be the same thing and I'll be reading those new books after the whole event is over.

I love mixing genres. You can't be all about the serious stuff well, you could, but you'll be a victim of a massive dullness, and that's fine by me. I love humor and I'm so glad I find books like this one, once in a while. People often think it's easy to write a funny book.

Well, it's not. It's not like putting a bunch of stupid words all together. And believe me, I read one of those and that's not how it works.

Well, for me, at least. These people seem to be clever, witty, charming. All things I can only imagine, but I'm guessing that's how they are? If they're not, don't tell me. Do not kill my illusion. Anyway, this book has funny anecdotes and hilarious drawings. You can look at this picture with some random sentence next to it, and still can't help a good laugh, no matter how serious that sentence is meant to be.

An overwhelming excitement. Kind of my reaction when entering an old-looking library. A giant asteroid is expected to hit the Earth in a matter of weeks. From now on, all books must be read using electronic devices and paperbacks are forbidden. OK, bad example.

And maybe that only happens to me. Anyhow, the anecdotes, the jokes, the hilarious observations on life, its weirdness and awesomeness and the awkward drawings Right now, I have a cat and I'm not frustrated because he won't do what I tell him to do.

I know he's not stupid. Moreover, I'm pretty sure his IQ is higher than mine. He won't listen to me because he simply doesn't want to. He knows the sound of my voice, when I'm petting him and when I'm angry because he just threw a glass off the table. So, he chooses when to obey. A free spirit who's not so free when I'm holding his food. And when I familiarized with the term, oh my, how I laughed!

Yep, that usually happens to me with Diet Coke bottles. By page something, I was laughing my teeth off. However, I couldn't help it. Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable.

They help me do the right thing. And I am terrified of what I would be without them. Because I suspect that, left to my own devices, I would completely lose control of my life. I fell in love with this human being. If you enjoy good comedy, this is your book. If you don't, well I'm really sorry. So, this is it! I loved this book. View all 16 comments. Shelves: favourite-books , graphic-novels , dog-stories , female-author-or-illustrator , family-stories.

At first I thought I wasn't going to like the illustrations in this book but they really grew on me. She thinks she may have been trying to prove she was still OK, amid everything that was going on. But here she is. It feels like being an animal getting reintroduced to the wild. Like, oh my goodness, people can see me.

Her progress over the past several years is in part thanks to her psychiatrist, whom she now FaceTimes every week. Another huge factor has been a budding friendship with herself. As always, such vulnerable moments are shot through with comedic absurdity, even for an audience of one. Hanging out with herself has also led Brosh to ponder what kind of person she wants to be.

She even started an Instagram account, to encourage herself to keep in touch. In an online world of constant content-churn, Brosh is a holdout: someone who will not be rushed. Sarah Henderson. Newswire Powered by. Close the menu. Rolling Stone. The suggestion that I'd been hanging out with Richard was disturbing for both my parents and Richard.

But the clues piled up. I couldn't control myself. I took more things, bigger things. I also branched over into hiding things for Richard to find. Pretty rocks, pieces of string, letters I'd tried to write. At that age, I didn't know how to spell very many words, so the messages were fairly cryptic: the entire alphabet, followed by the word Mom and a drawing of the sun. Rampant scribbling, hundreds of tiny circles, and The spider was supposed to be Richard. I hadn't figured out how many arms and legs people are supposed to have yet, so I just put a whole bunch on there and hoped it was enough.

I didn't want him to feel offended because I shortchanged him on legs. It must've come off like being haunted by a defective but well-meaning ghost. The connection should have been obvious. But, when faced with a mystery like, "Where did my remote control go? Why is there a piece of paper with a child's handwriting on it hiding in the VCR? And how do these rocks keep getting in here? I don't know what theory Richard came up with to explain it, but it almost certainly wasn't that one.

Similarly, when faced with a mystery like "why does our child keep disappearing? And why has our child been "hanging out" with our year-old neighbor? The thing that finally blew my cover was stealing Richard's cat.

Stealing it wasn't the original plan. The opportunity presented itself, I seized it. It was a strong animal. Getting it into the drawer was difficult.

I didn't have a plan for what to do with it, but I knew I had something valuable, and I think the thought process was that I should save it for later. For when I figured out how to capitalize on the probably unlimited potential of this. It lived in the drawer for a while. I don't know how long. Hours, probably.

They weren't expecting to find quite so many of Richard's things. I don't know if they put the pieces together immediately, or processed them individually as they came up— "first of all, there's a cat in this drawer; How about that.

Next up: there appear to be a considerable number of objects under the cat. This one is a shoe.